ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on Sunday, emphasized the importance of respecting international humanitarian law in Gaza, where Israel has continued bombardment after last week’s attack by Hamas. Bin Salman and Blinken, according to Saudi Pres...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Iran on Sunday warned that any Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip could escalate conflicts elsewhere in the Middle East. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held talks with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, as Israeli troops massed on the border. “No one can guarantee the control of...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – AFP Saudi Arabia has suspended talks on potentially normalising ties with Israel, a source told AFP on Saturday, as the war raged between Israel and Hamas. The Palestinian group launched a large-scale attack on Israel on October 7 which killed 1,300 people, sparking a retaliatory bombing campaign that has killed at...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that civilian casualties will be “absolutely unacceptable” in case of an Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Speaking at a meeting of the heads of the Commonwealth of Independents States (CIS) in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, Putin said that employing heavy mil...
Washington, United States – – AFP The United States and Qatar officials have agreed to prevent Iran from using a $6 billion humanitarian assistance fund, amid suspicions of Iran’s assistance to Palestinian resistance group Hamas. The money had been transferred to Iranian accounts in Qatar, in a US-Iran prisoner swap deal anno...
Beijing, China — AFP An Israeli embassy worker in Beijing has been attacked, Israel’s foreign ministry said. Video geolocated by AFP shows the man was stabbed with a knife on a street in the Chinese capital. “An Israeli employee of the Israeli embassy in Beijing was attacked today,” a foreign ministry statement said, ad...
ANKARA (AA) – The US has raised the travel warning for Israel and the West Bank to Level 3, urging its citizens to reconsider traveling to those places. “Updated given the current security situation including increased travel restrictions for U.S. government employees,” a State Department statement said. “Violence can occur in Israel and...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on a visit to Israel Thursday that the United States will “always” back it but said the Palestinians also have “legitimate aspirations” not represented by Hamas. Palestinian fighters killed 1,300 people in Israel, and took about 150 hostages in ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and Israel should bomb Iran, Senator Lindsey Graham said Wednesday. Asked during an interview with CNN whether he wanted the US and Israel to “bomb Iran even in the absence of direct evidence of their involvement” in the attack by the Palestinian Hamas group on Israel, the Republican senator responded: [&he...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the deployment of US aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea has a negative impact on the situation in the Gaza Strip. Speaking at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow, Putin questioned the purpose of sending a US military group to the region at […]
